Teaching/Learning Antiracism

The text begins with a startling, yet quite appropriate, theoretical stance towards the problem of racism. Later, this theory is used to justify the pedagogical approach of these two teachers in their actual classroom. Much of the theory used in the beginning of this text is reminiscent of a classic text on racism called The Nature of Prejudice, written some fifty years ago. The authors clearly lay out som

This text also makes it clear that the issue of racism is as damaging to the oppressed as it is to the oppressors. It is interesting to me that we have a number of clinically recognized “special needs” which demand accommodations of various kinds in the classroom. Each of these needs is to some extent recognized by the general public as legitimate, while at the same time is viewed with suspicion by others. For example, while it is required by law that accommodations be made for ADD students, there are always those who contend that all they really need is more discipline, and that doubt whether the whole thing wasn’t contrived by the pharmaceutical companies. I think there is a similar thing going on with racism. This book was very successful at showing the two sides of this issue: that those of the oppressed class have legitimate reasons for rejecting Euro-centrist approaches to instruction, and that members of the oppressing class carry with them assu

Some topics in this essay:
Nature Prejudice, ADD LD, Teaching/Learning Antiracism,